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Maurits Cornelius Escher
All M.C. Escher works © 2005 Cordon Art - Baarn - Holland. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
See also Escher posters.
Relativity (Relativiteit) - MC Escher, 1953 |
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Actually this famous drawing by Escher doesn't belong in this category at all. After all, it's perfectly possible to build a room like this. It could be a bit of a challenge to walk around in it : the inhabitants live in three different gravities. A wall for one inhabitant is a ceiling for another. |  View on Allposters.com |
Waterfall (Waterval) - MC Escher, 1961 |
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Follow the water. Where does it go ? This waterfall recycles the water after driving the water wheel. If you look carefully you see that the construction is made of three impossible triangles. | | View on Allposters.com |  Escher's Waterfall in LEGO Escher's Waterfall made entirely in LEGO blocks. |
Stair Well (Trappenhuis) - MC Escher, 1951 |
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Escher had a lot of fun with the perspective here. He also invented the little centipede creatures, called "Wentelteefjes" in Dutch (a hard to translate pun). He even described how they curled themselves up and rolled along. | | View on Allposters.com |
Belvédère (Belvédère) - MC Escher, 1958 |
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The upper and lower half of the building are quite normal. It’s the combination of the two which is impossible. If the lower half has a north-south orientation, the upper half is oriented east-west. The ladder starts inside the building, and when you climb it you'll get on the outside. | | View on Allposters.com |
Print Gallery (Prentententoonstelling) - MC Escher, 1956 |
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A visitor in a museum is looking at a print. On this print you can see a boat steaming alongside a city. If you follow the houses of the city to the right, you come to a gallery . . . In which our young man is looking at the print. A self-containing picture ! A nice trivia is that the gallery shows prints from Escher. | | View on Allposters.com | | Escherizing Applet Eschers "Print Gallery" explained. |
| Escher and the Droste effect About self-containing images and the maths behind Escher's Print Gallery. |
Drawing Hands (Tekenen) - MC Escher, 1948 |
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Escher wanted to show the illusion of a drawing as directly as he could. It looks like two threedimensional hands are drawing each other on a piece of paper. Which, in turn, is drawn on another piece. I wonder : would this be Eschers hand, and the pen he was using at the moment ? | | View on Allposters.com |
Ascending, Descending (Klimmen en dalen) - MC Escher, 1960 |
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The building seems to be solid, but when you examine it you see that the monks are ascending or descending forever. Escher didn't invent the endless staircase but he managed to draw it in a very appealing way. The inventors of the endless stairs were L.S. and Roger Penrose in 1958. | | View on Allposters.com |
Up and Down (Boven en Onder) - MC Escher, 1947 |
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Escher plays with unusual vanishing points in this drawing. In the middle of the picture, the up/down orientation shifts. In the top half of the picture you are looking up, in the bottom half you are looking down. To make it complete, up and down are showing the same scene. | | View on Allposters.com |
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